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respect to power for resale. supervisors, this is based on documentation which he provided us this morning, which had not previously been provided. where we have a recommendation of $500,000 for power or resell and reduction, we are reducing that, in total, to $250,000. we are reducing our recommended reduction. that is true in both 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. on page 18, the recommendation for equipment purchases, we are with strolling $100,000 on both. the bottom line is, supervisors, i...

supervisor chiu: ok. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor chiu. why dont we go to the budget analyst report? >> our recommendations begin or are summarized on page 7 of the report. recommendations are on pages eight through 19. let me mention that we have worked with mr. harrington this morning at this meeting. my understanding is that we have reached agreement and we have made three changes. let me review the changes for you. on page 9 of our report, we have a re...

talked about how energy efficient programs are much more efficient than the go solar program. can you explain that concept a little bit? >> sure. if we spend money to go to the police department or the fi re station and we change out their lighting, it means we will produce less power. we can sell the power and have of that money to programs we want to do. if youre looking of the need for a new heating and ventilation and air-conditioning system in your library, and we can provide the ...

you. on page 9 of our report, we have a recommendation for air travel -- a reduction of $3,500. we are revising that to increase to 45 under dollars, a $1,000 increase for what we had both in fiscal year 2011-2012 and 2012- 12013. we are withdrawing two recommendations. training of $9,000 in fiscal year 11-12 and training of $15,000 in 12-13. we are withdrawing our recommendation on membership fees at $10,000 and that is for both fiscal year 2011-2012 and 2012-12013. on page 11, we are...

attracts the building owner to energy efficient programs. by the way, since solar does not use water, we also benefit from water savings. the city has supported a bundle of low and high cost energy programs. this is no different. this is a tiny budget funded by water resources. please do not cut a program that seems to be working. thank you for listinening. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is walker wright. i work with petro solar. i work with an east coast company currently distr...

supervisor wiener: please finish, very briefly. >> in the past, weve had boom cycles where weve gone through the money very quickly. it did not require all installations to have certified go solar sf work force development employees and now theres a requirement of 50% of the workers. what happened at the beginning of this fiscal year is that the sf puc made a number of changes reducing the amount of the incentive, expanding the jobs from just installer to back office and required that ...

program. beyond that, it has brought down the cost to install solar by 25%. the day the go solar program was announced, we have 500 in the city. today, there are 2400 to one of the principal goals was to make this city a leader in solar power. its really a question of what the economic vision for the city should be. how serious are we to be 100% renewable power by 2020? you cannot cut the solar budget and still make progress toward those goals. this is a net moneymaker for the city and...

and just some major sticking points that i would like to call out, we would have to reach an agreement with pg&e. simply because we are feeding the energy into the grid. another point is that it is a question of what kind of communication mechanism might be used in order to manage and monitor the unit. the solar units are monitored by the technology. i think there are plans to have the new puc -- to use existing communication mechanisms. another point is metering and how to measure the...

we clarified a lot of the specifics of such a program and how it would work specifically. the first meeting in included richard smith. the second meeting included the general manager of power enterprise at the sfpuc. and the streetlights team. and just some major sticking points that i would like to call out, we would have to reach an agreement with pg&e. simply because we are feeding the energy into the grid. another point is that it is a question of what kind of communication mechani...

solar twice. they are the contract for the new jersey -- they are providing the pole-mounted solar units. we clarified a lot of the specifics of such a program and how it would work specifically. the first meeting in included richard smith. the second meeting included the general manager of power enterprise at the sfpuc. and the streetlights team. and just some major sticking points that i would like to call out, we would have to reach an agreement with pg&e. simply because we are feed...